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Brian Bruman
Brian Bruman

Reputation: 913

if Condition to check if XPath Attribute Exists

I have an xml file that is constructed like this

<listing ItemID="12345679" SKU="ABC123" Price="99.99" />

I have a for loop inside a foreach loop

for ($i = 0; $i < $itemidcount; $i++) {
    $xpath = $xml->xpath('/sitename/listing[@ItemID=' . '"' . $itemid[$i] .'"' . ']');
    $prices[] = (string)$xpath[0]->attributes()->Price;
}

My issue is, if the ItemID attribute does not exist in the for loop, it outputs an error and stops my script.

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /home/sitename/public_html/feeds/script.php on line 137

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function attributes() on null in /home/sitename/public_html/feeds/script.php:137 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/sitename/public_html/feeds/script.php on line 137

I've tried doing a count

$count = count((string)$xpath[0]->attributes()->Price);

and wrapping it in $prices[]

if ($count > 0) {
    $prices[] = (string)$xpath[0]->attributes()->Price;
}

But the same error occurs.

How can I create an if that will skip over the $prices[] line if the ItemID Attribute is not found?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 934

Answers (1)

Nigel Ren
Nigel Ren

Reputation: 57141

You need to check the number of elements returned from the XPath call. So

$xpath = $xml->xpath('/sitename/listing[@ItemID=' . '"' . $itemid[$i] .'"' . ']');
if (count($xpath) > 0) {
   $prices[] = (string)$xpath[0]->attributes()->Price;
}

Upvotes: 1

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